The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-28

van reference 70 Tho reciprocity tffnty Oh
1854, In that Il admits into tho Canadian
markets tho products Of our factories and
shor, which tho treaty Of 1884 did not,
The list covered BY tho treaty 3 rs follows:
Agricuituraf. implements, OF all kinds
leather ; boot and shoemakipg machines
buffalo robes, dressed and trimmed; cotton
grain bags; cotton denims cotton leans,
unbleached; cotton drilIings, unbleached;
cotton plaids ; cotton ticking; eottonades,
ui1blcached; cabinet ware or furniture, OF
parts thereof; carriages, carts, wagons. and
other wheeled vehicles or slelghs. or parts
thereof; fire engines, or parts thereof; felt
covering for boilers; guttH percla betting
and tubing; iron-bar, hoop, pig, puddfed,
rod, sheet or scrap; iron nails, spikes, bolts,
sacks, braids, orsprings, Iron castings; India
rubber betting and tubing; locomotives for
always or parts thereof; lead, sheet or pig;
leather, sole Or upper: leather, harness OF
saddlcry; null or factory or steamboat fixed
engines, and machines or parts thereof; man.
uiactlres OF marble, stone, slate, or granitoi
manufactures OF wood solely .os or wood
nailei, bound, hinged, or locked with metal
materials; mangles, washing machines,
wr1nging machines, drying machines, or
p~artsthereof; printing paper for newspapers ;
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printing type, presses and folders, paper cut.
tets. ruling machines, page numbering ma.
Chimes. and stercotyping and electrotyping
apparatus, or parts thereof; rcfrigerators, or
parts thereof; railroad cars, carriages, and
trucks, or parts thereof; satincts Of wool and
cotton steam engines, or PARTS thereof;
btoel, wrought or cast, and steel plates and
rails: tin tubes md piping; twccIs, Of wool
solely water wheel machines and apparatus,
OF. parts thereof.
i will DO observed TINT The treaty embraced
articles Of common daily use among tho
people and such as affect the prosecution Of
leading industries. They also rclatcsrecially
to the protection Of branches of industry OH.
gagged In by tho citizens Of both countries,
and to articles In which considerable traffic
between tho two may DO reasonably OK.
pcctcd.
A CANADIAN VIEW or the spuEcr
Commenting. upon the wisdom Of this
treaty, one Of the leading statesmen Of Can.
adn, the Hon. George Brown, who, Ms stated,
WINS ono of tho Commissioners on tho mart OF
Great Britain, made usc Of the following Ian.
glingc, which will adopt, rs II presents tho
case with cfcaniess and cafidor, and, rs | think,
impartially, ard suggests tho advantages
which nrc to iniirc In case oil d reciprocal mr.
rangcment, which not only includes all that
was covercd by tletrcaty oflS5i, and proposed
In the negotiations Of 1874, but removes
every commercial barrier that now exists
along tho line which separates the two ia-
tions.
Speaking Of tho ten propositions, Mr..
Brown said: "The first, second and seventh
Of them 60 naturally together, and they need
no comment. They. embrace simply tho
conditions Of the old treaty Of 1851, which
operated so fayorably for us, and so much
more favorably for tho United States. l
vii! leave 1t for the present and return to It
ngain. Tho fourth proposition-for the en-
cmincntiy for tho advantage Of the United
Suites, and involves n very large expenditure
on III part. It Is impossible 10 estimate tho
enormous annual gains TINT must result to
the farmers Of the Western States, when
vessels Of 1000 and 200 tons shall DO able to
load In tho upper lake ports and sail direct
to LivcrroOl-frce front transfifpmcnt cx-
penses, brokers' commissions, way harbor
dues, and ocean port charges, and return
direct to the prniries with hardy emigrants
and cargocs of European merchandise.
Canada, no doubt, would have her
share Of benefit from all this-but It
Gould not be compared for Il moment with
that Of the great Northwestern md some Of
the Middle States. The fifth proposition for
the construction of tho Caughnawaga canal
would be also IN immense boon 10 tho
United States. It would open up to tho
England for the first time, q direct water
communication Of their own with tho
great West; 1t would enable them to load
ships Of 1000 tons ut their Lake Champlain
ports with merchandise for the prairie
Suites, ind bring them back frcightcd with
farm producc; and when the Whitehall
canal should be enlarged 10 Troy, aud the
improvements Of tho upper Hudson COM
pleted to deep water, where In the wide
world could be found so grand II system Of
internal water %navigations that, stretching
Us 1t then would, til one continuous ship
channel FROM New York on the Atlantic to
tho west end Of Lake Superior, md possibly
ere long TO the eastern base of tho Rocky
Mountains? sG
"Cannda, too, would have her share of profit
in nil this. Her great lumber interests on
the Ottawa and Its branches would find fail
advantage from It, und the cntcrprising
farmers Of the midland and Eastern cou,i.
tics Of Ontario would have the New England
market, with its three und a half millions of
manufacturing population, open to their
traffic. The sixth proposition Is the conces.
sion to each other Of the inland coastipg
trade, and nothing could be done more sen.
sible or more profitable 10 both parties. Our
season Of navigation on the lakes Is short
the pressure for vessels In particular trades at
special times is very great on both sides Of
the lakes, and freights advance to unren-
sonable rates. Cheap transportation is
n foremost question In this West
ern industrial world, md what can be
conceived more absurd than TO see, rs is often
seen, large quantities Of produce lying ui-
shipped for want Of vessels, because foreign
bottoms cannot take freight from one port to
another in the SAINT conntry2 What tho
ton Of our limited marine with the $3.50 yes.
sells of all kinds and an aggregate tonnage Of
$4,000 tons, 1t is difficult to imagine. The
rrorosftion-f6r the reciprocal admis.
sion Of vessels built in either country to reg.
in the othcr-is generally regarded rs
advantageous to this country, and II o
doubt such is the fact. But l confess | can.
sec why it ought not to be regarded rs in.
lnitcly more advantageous to tho United
States. During the civil war tho mer-
chant vessels Of the republic were sold
in large numbers to foreign owners
and acquired foreign registers, and
Notwithstanding that shipbuilding had
almost disappeared from the UnitcdS States in
Coilsc'IutllCe VI I'LL cNtTcINe rfOtcGtiOnlSt
the law absolutely forbade their being
brought back or vessels Of foreign build being
purchased in their room. The consequence
is that Mt this moment nearly the entire pas I
traffic ofthc Atlantic Is in the hands I
of forcigncrs-a vast portion Of the freight Of :
merchandise from and TO foreign countries is
nlso in thehands of forcisncrs-nnd only two
months ago We had tho startling statement
made officially by Mr.. Bristow, the very able
Secretary of the United States Treasury, that
no less n sum than Sl0o.O0O.0O0 Is wid
annually by the people Of the United States
q foreign ship-owncrs for frcights md fares.
Now, n large portion of these ships, which
he people Of tho United States require SO ur.
Gun DO rs we'll built in
st.. John, and Halifax and Quebec, |
at less cost, than In any other
country. Why, then, ~deprivethe American cit
the privilege ofbuying them from us
and sailing Them as their own? We arc told
hat American shipbuilding is reviving; but
tito revive with all therapidity tue most
'anguinccouid desire, 1t could not keep pace
with tho wear and tear oftEe present reduced
marine and theAnnlally increasing demands,
much less begin TO supply the vacuum ctc.
tied since the war. Tie ninth aud tenth pro-
Nosals are fol the appointment Of JOINT com.
missions for tlc care Of the lighthouses and
tic fisheries Of the inland waters common to
10Th countries; but ny to these there Is no
Inference Of opinion, md no doubt of the
,rcat mutual ad%vantagcthat might flow from
he proposed concerted action in regard to
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